How Is the Electric Field Intensity Calculated on a Charged Sphere's Surface?
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That's flashing back even further !
But the same link has something to say about the derivation too, I seem to remember. The name Gauss comes to mind !
I take it you can look around there all on your own (with a little patience, perhaps ...) , so -- like a good helpdesk worker -- I can now safely close this ticket, I hope ?
But the same link has something to say about the derivation too, I seem to remember. The name Gauss comes to mind !
I take it you can look around there all on your own (with a little patience, perhaps ...) , so -- like a good helpdesk worker -- I can now safely close this ticket, I hope ?
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##F##=##\frac{K Qq}{r^2}##ehild said:Do you remember Coulomb's Law?
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They took the equation ##E##=##\frac{1}{4πε_0}\frac{q}{R^2}## and rewrote it in that form. You can check they are equivalent. This was useful because the numerator is the same as V2 and the denominator only involves the charge and some constants. Since V and q are known, this gives a quick way of finding E.gracy said:I am still clueless about my question in op.
##E##=##\frac{\left(\frac{1}{4πε0}\frac{q}{R}\right)^2}{\frac{q}{4πε0}}##
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